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¶ And Hamor the father of Shechem went out vnto Iacob to commune with him.

And Shechem said vnto her father, and vnto her brethren, Let mee finde grace in your eyes, and what yee shall say vnto me, I will giue.

And the sonnes of Iacob answered Shechem, and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

And the yong man deferred not to doe the thing, because he had delight in Iacobs daughter: and he was more honourable then all the house of his father.

And it came to passe as her soule was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Beniamin.

1611 marginal noteThat is, The sonne of my sorrow.

1611 marginal noteThat is, The sonne of the right hand.

¶ And Iacob came vnto Isaac his father vnto Mamre, vnto the citie of Arbah (which is Hebron) where Abraham and Isaac soiourned.

¶ And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in mount Seir.

1611 marginal noteHebr. Edom.

And these are the children of Zibeon, both Aiah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wildernesse, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations, in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Edom

¶ And Iacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

1611 marginal noteHeb. of his fathers soiournings.